athens.taipei The Atlas of City Experiences
The Anti-Awards

24 rankings. Every one is the true extreme of a real measurement — there is no worst city, only cities magnificently bad at one specific thing.

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The weather6
The Sauna You Can’t LeaveThe Bedroom That Never CoolsThe Umbrella EconomyRain, By The MetreSixteen Thousand DaysThe Year Without a Window
The hours it keeps6
The Cinderella ClauseThe Early Bedtime AwardThe Sunday Ghost TownThe Breakfast DesertThe Great Lunch VanishingThe Part-Time City
Getting out5
The Great Escape IndexHardest City to Leave (In a Hurry)The Domestic BubbleThe Hibernating AirportThe Perth Meridian
The ground and the sky4
The Wobbliest GroundThe Volcano PartyThe Volcano Next DoorThe 3 p.m. Sunset Club
Everything else3
The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
Tools

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

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Compare two cities Head-to-head on absurd terms only. No GDP, no cappuccino index. The year, month by month Where to be in each month, who has the most days off, and when the airports peak. Start from a goal Eat well at 2 a.m. · Work all day from a café — ranked by what the city keeps open.
How this is made

Every figure on this site states where it came from and what it cannot tell you.

Read the method →
Method & principles What we measure, what we refuse to guess, and why rhythm is never a claim about people. Sources Every corpus behind the atlas, with its licence. Books coming soon The long-form city profiles and the method book. Contact · request a city Tell us what the atlas is missing.
The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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Southern Europe21
RomeMilanBarcelonaMadridAthensLisbon
Western Europe20
LondonParisLuxembourgViennaAmsterdamDublin
North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇨🇺 Cuba · metro 1.6M · 982 venues mapped

Havana

Where Havana places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 82 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇺 Varadero 116 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Miami 📖 368 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jan, Feb, Mar, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink982 places mapped
10:00–24:00
0006121824
15%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
16%
open 24/7
Shops & errands484 places mapped
09:00–19:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
70%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
7%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
248
muggy days a year
140
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
95
umbrella days a year
39.5 m
of rain since 1981
9,740
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1082 km
to Yojoa, Lago
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:49
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.6 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
17,971
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureHavana RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 15.2% 148 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Taranto 15.3%🇮🇹 Varese 15.3%🇮🇪 Dublin 15.2%🇬🇧 Edinburgh 15.2%Havana🇮🇹 Imperia 15.2%🇪🇸 Ourense 15.2%🇷🇺 Pushkin 15.2%🇭🇷 Rijeka 15.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Grand Rapids 84 h🇬🇧 Great Yarmouth 84 h🇯🇵 Hachioji 84 h🇨🇳 Harbin 84 hHavana🇺🇸 Hazel Park 84 h🇹🇯 Hisor 84 h🇨🇺 Holguín 84 h🇺🇸 Holland 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 3.9% 433 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Muroran 4%🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 4%🇷🇺 Cherepovets 3.9%🇯🇵 Fukuyama 3.9%Havana🇧🇾 Hrodna 3.9%🇺🇾 Montevideo 3.9%🇫🇷 Sète 3.9%🇺🇿 Tashkent 3.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1% 374 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Asbury Park 1%🇺🇸 Chicago 1%🇺🇸 Detroit 1%🇬🇧 Glasgow 1%Havana🇺🇸 Irving 1%🇫🇮 Joensuu 1%🇸🇮 Ljubljana 1%🇺🇸 Lynn 1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 15.5% 84 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Yopal 15.8%🇬🇧 Doncaster 15.7%🇯🇵 Kishiwada 15.7%🇰🇿 Aktobe 15.6%Havana🇨🇦 Airdrie 15.4%🇰🇿 Atyrau 15.4%🇦🇿 Baku 15.4%🇮🇷 Yazd 15.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 70.3% 250 of 1,704 🇨🇿 Ostrava 70.4%🇸🇰 Poprad 70.4%🇭🇺 Érd 70.4%🇸🇰 Banská Bystrica 70.3%Havana🇵🇱 Świdnica 70.3%🇫🇷 Agen 70.2%🇭🇺 Veszprém 70.2%🇦🇷 Posadas 70.1%

The same questions are asked of the 126 cities with a written profile, where each one gets its method and its full standings: kitchens open past midnight, hours open per week, open before 8 a.m., vanish at lunch, shops open on sunday.

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